what glue to repair a brake pad ?
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Yeah .... you're wrong Bill 
I'd have put the spare pair in
Can't understand what all this fuss is about really, trying to 'save' money on pads ....
.... 74,000 miles out of the front pads of my 800 ... now that makes them absolute value for money
Even then they weren't really ready for changing
I'd have put the spare pair in
Can't understand what all this fuss is about really, trying to 'save' money on pads ....
.... 74,000 miles out of the front pads of my 800 ... now that makes them absolute value for money
Even then they weren't really ready for changing
D6
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myselfOi you old scrote
If one of your pads had seperated out in Mongolia, you know flippin' well that you would have used your little emergency tubes of araldite to glue it back together, or found some yak's milk to boil down and mix with some earwax or something.
And, you also know flippin' well that if it had survived the trip back, it would have still been on the pad until it had worn out
yes, id have glued it, anything to get moving again,
but no, i would have changed it at the earliest opportunity,
once out of the outback id have got some more, its just not worth it,
they (pads)are cheap and its your life,,
iv seen a pad araldited, stayed on for a few months, then sheared again, but that could have been down to bad glueing,not the glue?
i know the threads toungue in cheak but some people actually happily do this, but,
on our conjested and fast roads its not worth it i recon
Fanum
Toubab
Ok Ok, I hold my hands up.....
I would most certainly glue pads on to get me out of the cack (there was even a thread here a month or two back where a guy did precisely that after I tipped him off where to get it done in Ouazazarte) , in the same way I've ridden into Zagora with a completely snapped frame on the bike held together with cable ties and Vern's pannier rails inverted and bolted on to places they really weren't designed to be bolted.
And yes, I also got that welded up immediately, and yes, I'd change the pads too, just like the Ouazazarte guy did.
Get stuck in the rut of Western thinking though and one day, if you ever step out of your little boxes, you'll find you have no choice unless you want to wait a month for the AA to come and get you
Sometimes we do veer too close to the H&S line and lose sight of what is possible, the sort of things that they genuinely DO in the 3rd world quite adequately, and people throwing their hands up in horror at the suggestion that it could even be considered amuses me.
Carry on
I would most certainly glue pads on to get me out of the cack (there was even a thread here a month or two back where a guy did precisely that after I tipped him off where to get it done in Ouazazarte) , in the same way I've ridden into Zagora with a completely snapped frame on the bike held together with cable ties and Vern's pannier rails inverted and bolted on to places they really weren't designed to be bolted.
And yes, I also got that welded up immediately, and yes, I'd change the pads too, just like the Ouazazarte guy did.
Get stuck in the rut of Western thinking though and one day, if you ever step out of your little boxes, you'll find you have no choice unless you want to wait a month for the AA to come and get you
Sometimes we do veer too close to the H&S line and lose sight of what is possible, the sort of things that they genuinely DO in the 3rd world quite adequately, and people throwing their hands up in horror at the suggestion that it could even be considered amuses me.
Carry on
rce
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what about using bathroom tiles? and grout...?
they're hard as fark and should last ages plus grout sticks to jumpers and the like... like shit to a blanket....
Brill idea, just like high end sports cars, they have ceramic brakes and they are heavier and still stop OK.
Do you recommend a particular pattern ?
Aye Bill I worked out on big onshore / offshore Oil Handling refurb project on Sirri Island in the gulf
I was doing Materials manager and the associated QA QC We tested 300 welders to get 6 capable of doing a 6G piping weld
We made sheets for spool production all they had to do was to fill in the cast number used on that item in that drawing (a spool was maybe 6 components flange concentric reducer pipe bend another bit of pipe )
If a batch number of fitting failed we wanted to be able to trace the faulty batch I'd have had to monitor every fucking spool from set up to welding X rayed to Placement on site to do that
They really didn;t Give a Monkeys
I've seen some right dodgy fixes on the road from Bandar Abbas to Bandar e Lengeh all I can rather them than me My Motto is "Safe and Serviceable" It can be worn but still does it's job
Don;t even start me on H & S and I am pretty damn liberal on that end of things!
I was doing Materials manager and the associated QA QC We tested 300 welders to get 6 capable of doing a 6G piping weld
We made sheets for spool production all they had to do was to fill in the cast number used on that item in that drawing (a spool was maybe 6 components flange concentric reducer pipe bend another bit of pipe )
If a batch number of fitting failed we wanted to be able to trace the faulty batch I'd have had to monitor every fucking spool from set up to welding X rayed to Placement on site to do that
They really didn;t Give a Monkeys
I've seen some right dodgy fixes on the road from Bandar Abbas to Bandar e Lengeh all I can rather them than me My Motto is "Safe and Serviceable" It can be worn but still does it's job
Don;t even start me on H & S and I am pretty damn liberal on that end of things!
Ok Ok, I hold my hands up.....
I would most certainly glue pads on to get me out of the cack (there was even a thread here a month or two back where a guy did precisely that after I tipped him off where to get it done in Ouazazarte) , in the same way I've ridden into Zagora with a completely snapped frame on the bike held together with cable ties and Vern's pannier rails inverted and bolted on to places they really weren't designed to be bolted.
And yes, I also got that welded up immediately, and yes, I'd change the pads too, just like the Ouazazarte guy did.
Get stuck in the rut of Western thinking though and one day, if you ever step out of your little boxes, you'll find you have no choice unless you want to wait a month for the AA to come and get you
Sometimes we do veer too close to the H&S line and lose sight of what is possible, the sort of things that they genuinely DO in the 3rd world quite adequately, and people throwing their hands up in horror at the suggestion that it could even be considered amuses me.
Carry on
and dont forget welding up the starter motor casing that was in about 6 bits - like a dropped egg (after we tow started the bike in sand
)
Fanum
Toubab
and dont forget welding up the starter motor casing that was in about 6 bits - like a dropped egg (after we tow started the bike in sand
...Which one of the Mo's ended up turning a brass ferrule* for overnight, to fit in the end around the shaft
Happy days
PS that starter motor lasted another year at least
* It wasn't brass, it was some rather more exotic allow that they only seem to use in starter motor bushes....fekked if I can remember what it was though
Fanum
Toubab
phosphor bronze I would imagine
Yup, that's the stuff.
Not the sort of thing that you have sitting around in an average tool box, waiting for some Moroccan kid to come and purloin to fit to some twobab's bike
It was all done that night though....plus IIRC, the sole of an MX boot glued back on with vulcanised rubber glue from a push bike shop and a few carpet tacks and a cracked mobile phone case fixed with a soldering iron.
No wonder Comet have gone bust
Sandman
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Step out of our little comfort bubble and we see an entirely different way of thinking.
You cant stitch a mudguard?
oh yes you can.
That is some time consuming stitch repair on that front mudguard
Are the flip flops in for repair too???
What kind of glue could you use to fix the straps after a flip flop failure???
Fanum
Toubab
That is some time consuming stitch repair on that front mudguard
Are the flip flops in for repair too???
What kind of glue could you use to fix the straps after a flip flop failure???
Vulcanised rubber glue
The flipflops are likely to be made from leather or old tyres out there.....those look like leather, but old tyres last better.
This time next year Mohammed, we'll be millionaires
Sandman
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It it compulsory to buy new ones when you wear them down to 1.6mm??
STUBBS
undead
can you buy remolds and part worns
Well if the law is the same there as here;
four footed vehicles require 1.6m.m. min.
two footed and classic feet need a mere 1m.m.
Yes, but you'll walk with a pronounced limp.*
*That's pronounced; 'limp'.
